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Who is the McDonald's employee credited with stalling Steve Stephens?

21 April 2017

A U.S. gunman accused of murdering an elderly grandfather and posting the footage on Facebook killed himself Tuesday after a brief police chase, bringing to a close a frantic nationwide manhunt.

It marked a violent end to the almost 48-hour multistate manhunt for Steve Stephens, whose case brought another round of criticism down on Facebook over how responsibly it polices objectionable material posted by users.

While the auto was spinning out of control Stephens pulled a pistol and shot himself in the head, Pennsylvania State Police said.

Within "30 seconds", he said, state police had responded and were on Stephens' tail.

"We are getting calls from all over the country as far away as Texas", Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said in a news conference Tuesday morning. "We would like to have brought Steve in peacefully, and really talked to him and find out exactly why this happened".

Steve Stephens, 37 and thought to have been mentally unstable, had been on the run since 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr was shot dead on Easter Sunday, seemingly at random in broad daylight in Cleveland, Ohio. The company says it disabled Stephen's account within 23 minutes of receiving the first report about the video of the fatal shooting and two hours after receiving any report.

Watch CBN News Reporter Charlene Aaron's interview with Chris Pandolfo of the Conservative Review about the trend of crime played out on social media. Steve Stephens had posted a video of the crime on Facebook. He said he "just snapped".